Category: Teaching International Students

May 22, 2024

What Does it Mean to be an Intercultural Educator?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Diversity is a fact of life in any Canadian postsecondary setting.  In addition to diversity in such areas as age, gender, and educational background, Conestoga...

Categories Intercultural Awareness/Reflective Practice/Teaching/Teaching International Students

May 2, 2024

What Did I Do Wrong? What Academic Integrity Means to the International Students

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Teaching & Learning Consultant While no study indicates that international students plagiarize more frequently, there are worries that these students might...

Categories Academic Integrity/Teaching/Teaching International Students

March 7, 2024

Exploring the Complex Ideas of Teachers and Teaching in South Asian Academic Culture  

Reading Time: 4 minutes By Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Consultant, Teaching and Learning South Asia has a collectivist society, which is a fascinating tapestry of interconnectedness where individual threads weave...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Build Community/Communicating With Students/Diversity/Intercultural Awareness/Teaching International Students

February 21, 2024

Encouraging International Students to Take Notes in the Classroom

Reading Time: 3 minutes Dr. Nasreen Sultana, Consultant, Teaching & Learning Notetaking has been one of the traditional and effective ways for post-secondary students to learn. However, as technology...

Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Teaching/Teaching International Students/Theory and Practice

October 18, 2023

Teaching and Supporting Nigerian International Students. 

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Dr. Monsurat Raji and Dr. Nasreen Sultana (Teaching and Learning Consultants) Beginning post-secondary studies in Canada for most international students is like playing a...

Categories Intercultural Awareness/Teaching International Students

October 17, 2023

Experience of African International Students at Conestoga: What Students Say

Reading Time: 4 minutes Chioma Uwaneme (Work Study Student at T&L) & Dr. Nasreen Sultana (Consultant, T&L) On 5 October 2023, Teaching and Learning hosted a Coordinator Learning Event...

Categories Teaching/Teaching International Students

September 6, 2023

The Success of International Students at Conestoga College

Reading Time: 4 minutes By Dr. Sara Kafashan and Dr. Nasreen Sultana Note: This post contains initial thoughts from Sara and Nasreen, Teaching & Learning Consultants who originally came...

Categories Teaching/Teaching International Students

September 4, 2023

Language Use in the Conestoga Classroom

Reading Time: 6 minutes This tip is to guide you in exploring how your comments and practices regarding use of the students’ first language (L1) in the classroom may impact an international student’s first experiences in Canada.

Categories Class Management/Diversity/Teaching International Students

June 21, 2023

Conventions for Writing and Saying Numbers

Reading Time: < 1 minute Your students from India may be making mental adjustments for the first while when listening to or reading the higher numbers. This chart compares number notation conventions.

Categories Teaching/Teaching International Students

April 26, 2022

Getting Started with Grammarly

Reading Time: 2 minutes A post by Library Services that provides an overview of Grammarly, a tool for supporting writing and proofreading

Categories AI and Assessment/AI and Teaching/Library Services/Teaching International Students